Congratulations to Tom Daly! We haven’t read the report to see whether we think it has holes, but until we do — good for you!

A report says that Tom did nothing wrong. Good, presuming that it’s true!

With so much other stuff going on right now, we’re not going to talk about this now (given that the AD-69 race isn’t competitive), but you’re welcome to do so. Or you can talk about something else. This is, after all, your Weekend Open Thread.

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose worker's rights and government accountability attorney, residing in northwest Brea. General Counsel of CATER, the Coalition of Anaheim Taxpayers for Economic Responsibility, a non-partisan group of people sick of local corruption.
Deposed as Northern Vice Chair of DPOC in April 2014 when his anti-corruption and pro-consumer work in Anaheim infuriated the Building Trades and Teamsters in spring 2014, who then worked with the lawless and power-mad DPOC Chair to eliminate his internal oversight.
Occasionally runs for office to challenge some nasty incumbent who would otherwise run unopposed. (Someday he might pick a fight with the intent to win rather than just dent someone. You'll know it when you see it.) He got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012 and in 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002.
None of his pre-putsch writings ever spoke for the Democratic Party at the local, county, state, national, or galactic level, nor do they now.
A family member co-owns a business offering campaign treasurer services to Democratic candidates and the odd independent. He is very proud of her. He doesn't directly profit from her work and it doesn't affect his coverage. (He does not always favor her clients, though she might hesitate to take one that he truly hated.)
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)

Chairman Vern . First, your title should be Chairperson, make it gender neutral. I am tired of you guys perpetuating the sexism. Even better, you should become Comandante Vern. That would my libido juices start churning right away. Even la ruca seria del “Thinking(?)OC” blog would loosen up,and stop pushing Lucille down our throats….I am sorry, it must the habaneros chiles working its magic on me..You and my homeboy Gustavo are secretly sniffing too much aerosol spray together, listening to Santana and Silvio. You came up with the Oracle esoteric chingadera, and Gus is stuck with Halloween themes, que pasa vatos…? The worst thing is that Gus starts picking up fights with the wrong people, mis rucos de Los Amigos…Did Greg knock you out? It is all Greg’s fault. He has not posted any comprehensive (boring) piece lately, so I have been awake at night….and started my own trips into the blogsphere (darn Greg), and found out that there is a group of neo-marxists writing manifestos, disguised as conservatives….hummm, Comandante Bough sounds kind of sexy…Chao chairman Vern, you can keep your title.

I knew there was something I was supposed to use as a theme, but I forgot what it was. Next weekend is pre-election; let’s schedule that for afterwards. It would be perfect, by the way, for Thanksgiving — we could make it an entire week!

Greg and Vern, you have been ignoring me. There is nothing worst for a woman than to be ignored. If I were a guy, or a white chick you would be tweeting your replies, even in the wee hours of the mornings. OK, this is my last post in your blog.

Before leaving I am going to take my vodoo doll and convert Greg into the poster boy for Michelle’s anti gorditos campaign. I am going also to team you up with the vendido of Paul Rodriguez. He will continue selling Verizon shit, and you will the be the spokeperson for the Romneysia corporations, making people to fall sleep.

Now for you Vern, hummm, I will keep you as a chicken. You’ve been a chicken lately, since Gus and Moxley told you that Greg had been fooling around with your blog. You did not go to battle with them in their turf, as other people did. You spend so much time with the 405 chingadera, rubbing elbows with the big honchos, that make you so pragmatic courting the respect of conservatives. You do not even have Robert Duanes electoral propaganda in your blog. Sure you have reported on hot issues, but it is mostly after others have done it. Where is the follow up with the Perez family, and others like them in need of help? Where is your analysis of the APD police brutality? Your great idea was to buy t-shirts from the guy profiting from gangbangers drawings…

You should know better guys not to ignore women. Hasta la vista babies!

there is a great restaurant up in los angeles, on melrose close to the grove, called Mao’s. it is plastered with posters and slogans from the great chinese cultural revolution…and the lo mein is pretty good too

I had sworn earlier today not to return to this blog. It is not that I suffer from the battered wife syndrome that I came back one more time. It is because something I read in the cross-site Save Anaheim website bugged the heck out of me. And it was not only me. I said what I had to say under their thread. I am already here, so let me tell you that after talking to a friend, and don’t be nosy, don’t ask about my personal life, I decided to release the spell on both of you.

Now you Greg, I had asked you no to call my homeboy Gus a cabron, and you did again. Don’t do it again! I will have Moxley haunting you forever. My friend likes to say “mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo”, you become wise with age, and that Gus is our ” prima donna” right now. He has achieved a lot at a young age, and he is our pride. He is still learning, he did not call you pendejo in this last round of discussion regarding Dr Moreno.

Vern I am sorry I was hard on you. This is a blog after all, a pair of goofy guys, sometimes writing puras pendejadas, with a bunch of ociosos reading them. Sometimes you have good hits, and keep people connected. Now do not reply to me with cutesy, condescending tweeter type of responses. Give me responses that enrich the conversation, without swearing. If a ever meet you, you’d better play La Maza as Mercedes Sosa does.

I didn’t recall your asking me that; I just remembered you asking him not to call people “pendejo.” I don’t know what to do with Gustavo. Even despite flinging an obscene word at him, I don’t think that I’ve treated him nearly as badly as vice-versa. I recognize that he’s somewhat required to defend Moxley (and “mini-Mox” Brandon) due to his position as Editor, but if he doesn’t give me more than general statements about how supposedly stupid I am in response to my measured answers I don’t feel the need to be more restrained than I am.

But, because you asked me nicely and took off the curse, I will try to show some restraint. Could you suggest a milder insult that I could use for him without offending you? Perhaps something along the lines of the Spanish equivalent of “twit”?

It may derive from “goat,” which is “cabra” (as in “chupa____”), but Google Translate translates is as “asshole” or “bastard” (which is pretty much what I intended) or as a 12-letter word that I won’t write out because I don’t want to lose Dora again.

Dora LaLora

Posted October 28, 2012 at 11:35 PM

You’re right, I forgot to ask you not to call Gus a cabron…it is your fault…just don’t call him names, and please do not use the ones you found in Google. If you need to use a soft one, well, you could use “buey”.

OK, the weekend is almost over, not boring after all. It would have been boring just talking about the second withiest man alive, Daly. It is almost midnight, time to put my voodoo dolls away.Behave!

Dan C. of the Lib OC wrote a story well-worth reading on the Irvine Mayor’s race and the groundless accusations that Larry Agran had coaxed Katherine Daigle into the Mayor’s race with promises. This story blows them to smithereens — and provides a very dark look at Christine Shea’s sticking the shiv into her former friend’s back.

I don’t always praise Dan C.’s stories — but when I do it’s because they’re well-researched. Check it out.